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“20% of Edinburgh children live in poverty is both a scandal and sadly not a surprise.” – Ewan Aitken, September 2015 The news that 20% of Edinburgh children live in poverty is both a scandal and sadly not a surprise. Despite relatively high average earnings, Scotland’s capital has always been a…

I’ve had depression before, bereavement, relationship breakdowns, baby blues – the melancholy usually rears its head every few years. Anxiety, sadness, fear – I’ve felt all of that, but the worst feeling was when I felt nothing, when I felt numb. When I couldn’t feel any emotions at all I knew I needed to get…

I moved to the US when I was 28 years old, working in the IT business, and was loving life there. My career was really taking off, I fell in love and married an amazing Texan girl. Then, just after I had started as Vice-President of North America sales for a German software firm, and…